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That has never been what balance is defined as in RPGs. In RPGs, balance has and will always mean a range of balance, not perfect balance.

Sure it did. It just didn't intend that to be the default. You don't provide for something you don't intend to be a part of the game, and the 5e DMG provides for NPCs with PC classes.

There were NPC classes found in Dragon Magazines, but I don't recall any in the main books. And as you say, many who used those classes from the Dragon Magazines allowed the players to use them as well. My personal experience was that they were mostly used by players. That's anecdotal, though.

We never noticed that and would have just changed it had we seen it. :)

I missed that tangent. What the heck was the argument for it generating light?

He was notoriously inconsistent, wasn't he? I forgot about the sage, but that really doesn't alter that generally speaking, NPCs were just PCs run by NPCs.

CR is just inherently flawed. Since it was introduced in 3e all it has been useful for is to ballpark a monster's power level and then I had to compare it to the party make-up and player skill levels. I usually begin looking at CR +/- 3 and if I can't find something I want in that range, I...

You've got it backwards. 1e introduced NPCs as just PC classes controlled by the DM. They rolled stats like PCs, had classes like PCs, had magic items like PCs. Henchmen and hirelings were PC classes. And so on. It was 3e that introduced the NPC classes that were different/worse than the PC...

No text is being voided of meaning with what I'm saying. The text in the DMG simply means what the 1 hit point in the stat block means. D&D, and other games, quite often repeat information in multiple areas of the game. What is happening is that we have two different meanings being attached...

You seem to be equating specific rules exceptions like indestructible, destroyed by sunlight, and triple skulls with a general statement that creatures with 1 hit point are destroyed by any damage. If I have 1000 non-minion children with 1 hit point, all 1000 will be killed by any damage...

The US has no infrastructure to make up for the lost imports. That means that 1) they import at a higher cost and pass it on to us as inflation, 2) import less driving up demand and therefore we get inflation, or 3) one of those options plus billions of dollars to create a factory, and the we...

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I think they call those condors.

Along with a ton of inflation in a country not set up to take over the manufacturing involved AND in which manufacturing costs a lot more.

Can you show anything written that says specifically how any of those that are performed by a PC invalidates the rule that if you knock a CREATURE(no exceptions in the rule for any type of creature) to 0 you can render it unconscious? For a rule to specifically beat another one, you need to...

I'm curious how you square away that the game allows destroyed creatures to be knocked out, with your stance that destroyed creatures can't be knocked out. Elementals, constructs, demons, angels, undead, etc. are all destroyed. That's the language the 4e MM uses. Just like minions, and yet...

Going only by what you posted here as I didn't see the other thread, I can see a stark difference between the two. Pointing to Game of Thrones to justify a narrative style of play(gritty/dark) is very different from using radically different mechanical implementations of the same creature...

I'd be fine with it if destroyed were actually defined in the rules and the definition was different from killed, but it isn't. To make matters worse, in 4e elementals, undead, outsiders(not sure that's the term for them), and constructs are all destroyed, yet since they are all creatures they...